Inscrutable YAML parsing error

diotalevi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I get the following error from YAML and I don't understand what's wrong. It looks like ok YAML to me.

~/bin/perl/5.9.4/bin/perl5.9.4 -MYAML=LoadFile -e 'LoadFile("META.yml"
+)'
YAML Error: Couldn't parse single line value
   Code: YAML_PARSE_ERR_SINGLE_LINE
   Line: 6
   Document: 1
 at /home/josh/bin/perl/5.9.4/lib/site_perl/5.9.4/YAML.pm line 60
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META.yml

--- #YAML:1.0
name: Regexp-NamedCaptures
version: 0.03
author:
  - "Joshua ben Jore" <jjore@cpan.org>
abstract: Saves capture results to your own variables
license: perl
generated_by: Module::Build version 0.2611, without YAML.pm
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Re: Inscrutable YAML parsing error by Fletch (Bishop) on Jun 21, 2006 at 16:33 UTC
Quotes are significant to YAML and the item in the sequence for `author` is throwing it off. I get an error from Syck as well. Surround the whole value with single quotes, or use a block scalar indicator. `--- #YAML:1.0 name: Regexp-NamedCaptures version: 0.03 author: - \|- "Joshua ben Jore" <jjore@cpan.org> abstract: Saves capture results to your own variables license: perl generated_by: Module::Build version 0.2611, without YAML.pm` [download] Update: Reworded to (hopefully) clarify exactly what I meant by surround with quotes.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Inscrutable YAML parsing error by diotalevi (Canon) on Jun 21, 2006 at 16:35 UTC
Ok, thanks. I surrounding it with single quotes and that caused it to work. ⠤⠤ ⠙⠊⠕⠞⠁⠇⠑⠧⠊	[reply]
Re: Inscrutable YAML parsing error by rblasch (Monk) on Jun 21, 2006 at 16:55 UTC
As another pointer, have a look at The YAML Spec: Scalar Styles. It may look complicated, but that's okay, because it really is.	[reply]